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When the original NBC run of “The Biggest Loser” came to an end in 2016 after 17 seasons, it did so with an air of controversy around it due to claims about unhealthy weight loss methods on the show. Entering into its 18th season, now on USA, the format was tweaked for the 2020 audience.

Syfy and UCP are extending the adventures of the iconic fairy tale characters of Peter Pan and his Lost Boys by developing a limited series entitled “The League of Pan.”

Syfy has given out a straight-to-series order for a show based on the iconic horror character Chucky, the central figure in the “Child’s Play” film franchise. The cabler made the announcement at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Saturday.

“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon is coming to primetime for the first time.

Keep calm; ‘Days of Our Lives’ is in fact carrying on. NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy confirmed at the Television Critics Assn. press tour that the long-running daytime drama will be returning for another season on NBC.

“This Is Us” is embarking upon the second half of its fourth season, with two more seasons already guaranteed, and series creator Dan Fogelman says the plan for the overarching story “has held” ever since he pitched the show.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will return to host the Golden Globes in 2021, Poehler announced onstage at NBCUniversal’s Televison Critics Assn. press tour Saturday.

Dwayne Johnson has scored a straight-to-series order at NBC for a comedy series based on his childhood.

NBC has given the medical drama “New Amsterdam” a massive three-season renewal.

“Fargo” creator Noah Hawley thought the FX series was done after its Season 3, which aired back in 2017. Three years later, “Fargo” is back with a new take and a new cast, led by Chris Rock — and this time, Hawley isn’t dismissing the possibility of future seasons.

FX chief John Landgraf has long been a proponent of transparency, making public his research team’s hyper-analyzed TV viewership data on a regular basis. But with the launch of FX on Hulu, the basic cabler’s new streaming home, how its shows’ viewership is divulged is not entirely up to him.

The upcoming fourth season of “Better Things” is out to deconstruct how arguments between mothers and daughters can escalate so far as to get to a point where they are calling each other c—s.

The third episode of FX’s nine-part limited series “Mrs. America” is entitled “Shirley” for Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress who represented New York’s 12th congressional district for seven terms between the 1960s and 1980s. Having her voice in the story, portrayer Uzo Aduba said during the cabler’s Television Critcs Assn. press tour panel for the show on Thursday will “right a cultural wrong.”

In a world in which more than 500 scripted series are on TV and streaming platforms are launching en masse, even the strongest programming can have a tough time breaking through.

It’s officially going to be a year before FX delivers more episodes of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta.”

“Impeachment: American Crime Story” is not going to start airing on FX ahead of the 2020 Presidential election as originally planned.

“American Horror Story” has been renewed for three more seasons, taking the franchise to Season 13, FX announced Thursday.

Longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who last year announced that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, said at the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour that he doesn’t expect to retire anytime soon.

ABC has ordered a pilot for a sequel series to the classic drama “Thirtysomething,” Variety has learned.

The Oscars are once again going to go without a host.

New Fox, not quite so new anymore, has now spent a full quarter sailing along as its own ship following the Disney-Fox merger that brought 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets under Disney’s umbrella and left a leaner entity in its wake. As part of its efforts to be nimbler and more appealing to talent, the network — the only major one unaffiliated with a studio — is developing year round, like its streaming brethren.

Just 24 hours after Ellen DeGeneres first aired her “The Masked Singer” spoof segment, “The Masked Dancer,” on her eponymous daytime talk show, Fox’s head of alternative entertainment and specials Rob Wade started making phone calls.

Fox Entertainment is in very early stages of development of a newly acquired piece of intellectual property — The Texanist, a column at Texas Monthly magazine.

Fox kicked off the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena on Tuesday, announcing some new projects while showcasing some of their midseason fare.

Manny Coto’s new Fox drama “Next” centers on a super intelligent A.I. and the few people who know it not only exists but has gone rogue and is out to harm people. In that way, the first season is one of a man hunt — but for an entity that can’t be physically seen and is something that many don’t believe even exists.

“Filthy Rich” creator and showrunner Tate Taylor grew up in the Presbyterian church, but his new Fox drama is not designed to convince the audience that one family’s religious beliefs are better than any others.

Mara Brock Akil is coming back to Fox.

Fox is hardly masking its intentions when it comes to its future.